I'm happy it exists.
Maybe vehicles below certain MPGs should have a higher gas guzzler tax in CA. The rich who really want it can still have them... and for the regular folks, they'll just have to settle with smaller hybrid SUVs or EV SUVs or something... Commercially used truck maybe be exempted perhaps to not add more burden to construction folks...
I dunno. Not sure what I would do even if I have the power to do it... I just know we shouldn't tax everyone too much. Gas is not cigarettes or alcohol, people really need gas for their livelihood! I'm also not that for giving away tax money to rich folks buying fancy EVs.
I think it'd probably be more worthwhile for CA to just invest $3billion in Musk's companies!
Current federal tax credit works kinda in reverse... if you don't owe more than $7500 in taxes, you won't get full credit. So this favor the rich rather than the poor. CA only relatively recently decided to keep a pot of money reserved for lower income folks and increase rebate amount for the poor..., but this is still kinda funky to allow the 'poor' to be able to afford a nearly $50k BMW i3, right? Genuinely poor folks most likely won't make that kind of financial decisions...
Anyway, these new rebates should not be applicable to premium EVs. Model S and X definitely should no longer qualify. If a car cannot be around $20k after rebate, then you're basically subsidizing the rich.
Yep.
Can't speak for the Leaf, but in the Bolt suddenly removing your foot from the throttle (we'll need a new word...) will result in a very rapid slowdown. Not full lockup, but definitely in a rapid but controlled fashion. I've been driving it with two feet - one foot covering the brake pedal just in case, the other doing everything else. If these cars had fully autonomous emergency braking (like Mercedes, for example) I'd be happy to have them do away with the brake pedal altogether. Admittedly my sample size is small, but in a couple hundred miles of driving the Bolt I have never touched the brake pedal.
Drove an electric truck that was set to full regen, so foot off throttle and it stopped. Actually had a 9 year old who could barely reach the pedals have a go! She couldn't push the brake much but didn't need to use it.
It is a feature of electric vehicles.